The Odisha Government would host an ‘International Dam Safety Conference’ here on February 13 and 14. Delegates from India and abroad would participate in it.
Central Water Commission (CWC) Chairman S Masood Husain said this here after meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for the purpose. Husain said, “The dam safety programme is of the Union Ministry of Water Resources. This will be the fifth conference. A World Bank programme on dam safety is underway in the country. This programme is based on the safety and maintenance issues of the old dams. And this international conference is a part of it.”
He said experts, water professionals and dam safety professionals of more than 20 foreign countries would participate in it. He said four such conferences have already been organised earlier and the one in Odisha would be the fifth. The event would be jointly organised by the State Water Resources Department, the Central Water Commission and the World Bank.
Husain said he came to invite the Chief Minister for the inaugural function of the conference. The activities taken up in different countries about dam safety would be discussed in the conference and the valuable presentations would benefit the engineers of India, officials said.